Summary
Ben Griner is a Senior Software Engineer and Product Owner with over 20 years of experience designing and delivering web applications for commercial and government clients. He combines deep backend expertise in Java, Go, and Python with practical front-end and cloud skills using React, AWS, Docker, and CI/CD tooling to ship resilient services and APIs. Ben has a long tenure in defense and systems engineering, having progressed from the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center to senior roles at SPARC/Booz Allen and now Apothesource, bringing strong domain knowledge in secure, auditable systems. He is comfortable across databases from PostgreSQL to Cassandra and MongoDB and has architected microservice-style stacks using Spring Boot, Go kit, gRPC, and REST. Known for bridging hands-on development with product ownership, he focuses on turning complex requirements into maintainable, production-ready solutions while mentoring teams. Based in Charleston, SC, Ben pairs formal computer science training from Clemson and College of Charleston with a pragmatic, cross-language engineering approach.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science at Clemson University
Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science at College of Charleston